I have a confession make...last week was a big hectic for me...I was busy putting the finishing touches to my new crafting space...Wimbledon started and in this house everything stops for tennis...my Summer couch potato guilty pleasure and time runs away with you when you're having fun. Before I knew it was Friday and I needed to make my project for this week's challenge so I delved into my stash of Tim Holtz Idea-ology to create a quick and easy collage type card where someone else has done all the work and I just needed to look out my Paper Distresser Tool and have some fun...

I cut paper from the Tim Holtz Memoranda Stash Pad (one of my favourites) to be slightly smaller than my card blank and distressed the edges with the Paper Distresser...created some rips with my trusty Fiskars scissors and inked around the edges with Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide.

For my collage I chose items from Idea-ology Collector...Botanical Layers...Snippets and gave them the same distress treatment

I used Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide (what a glorious colour) and the Mini Layering Stencil from Set 4 to add more colour to the paper...

You can find all the products I used over at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp online store...just click on the links below...

Why don't you pop over to the Monday Challenge Blogand check out the amazing creations from my very talented Design Team mates and our Guest Designer. As always you all have the chance to win a $50 gift voucher to spend at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time...1pm UK time...2 pm CET to join in...

22 comments:

Wonderful layering Kath, I just love the diary paper and the butterflies are just gorgeous. You sure know how to collage beautifully! We are vegging out here too, but not the tennis - the Tour de France, it is not doing my blood pressure any good though!! Hugs, Anne xx

Watching the tennis here too, with a laptop on my lap so I can catch up on a bit of blog visiting when the players are sat down in between games. (Nadal currently trying to win the fourth set to stay in the game.)xx

This is another stunning piece! I love how you're always putting elements together in interesting ways. You have the gift of seeing what patterns and textures are going to mesh and it's always a treat to see how your projects turn out!